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Duncan MacIntyre: a highland piper

A sullen atmosphere pervades the battlefield of El Alamein, its empty wastes evoking little of the monstrous struggle that took place here 70 years ago. And though the sun still beats down and the nights chill you to the bone, the odd fly gives little idea of the...

When the Dominions stood with Britain

The Australian troops were all volunteers. They didn’t need to come and fight and die in the desert. They came out of loyalty to Britain at a moment of desperate need. They came inspired by the national saga of Australian audacity and courage at Gallipoli. They came...

Italy and the North African Campaign

  When Britain first went to war in North Africa, it was not with Germany, but with Italy.  Hostilities had been initiated by Italy launching an invasion of Egypt from its colony in Libya, and though British and Commonwealth forces managed to repel the attack,...

Susan Travers: a war romance

In 1956, on a bitterly cold day, in front of Les Invalides in Paris, Susan Travers stood to attention in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion, the only woman every to have been accepted into the elite corps. A lone general, Marie-Pierre Koenig, strode across the...

Zerzura, Count Almasy and the English Patient

    When a tragic love story is woven around the lives of real people and a film is made of it with powerful performances acted out in a landscape of haunting beauty, fiction trumps fact, artistic licence prevails and a landscape becomes part of our...